Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Henry Taylor

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Henry Taylor

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Henry Taylor

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

George Porter

We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.

Yaya Toure

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

Yael Naim

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Thomas Dekker

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thomas Beecham

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Thomas Beecham

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Ian Mcewan

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

Ian Mcewan

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

Ian Wright

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

Gwen Moore

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

William Brewster

In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.

Will Carling

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Edward Young

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Robin Gibb

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

Robin Gibb

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

Sara Sheridan

I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.

Rio Ferdinand

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Jean Ingelow

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.